WatchTeX

WatchTeX is a simple program that watches every .tex files in a specified directory, and compiles them when they are modified.

Usage

watchtex [directory]

If no directory is specified, the current directory is used.

To stop the program, press Ctrl+C.

To work, the program needs rubber installed and available in the PATH environment variable.

Compilation

To compile the program, you need to have:

• a C++20 compiler installed (default: g++)
• make installed
• librt installed

If you want to use another compiler, you can specify it with the CC environment variable.

To compile the program for release, run:

make release

Otherwise, to compile the program for debug, run:

make debug

Limitations

At the moment, the program only compiles on Linux x86-64 machines.

License

This program is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.